Done before but it’s fun. So guess the book and the mil

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Help! I have one dd. My mil has lived with us since we have been married.

She is a very strong woman and overruled me on everything. She sends me to bed if I sneeze.

When dd was 2 dh pissed off capturing butterflies in Africa and I havnt heard off him for years. Bastard. So mil got friendly with a wierd lady next door. She has big hair coils round her ears, writes books and has lots of kids.

I am concerned she is also involved in modern slavery as she has a woman living with her called Anna who does everything.

Anyway mil and this wierd Jo woman have colluded to send dd to a boarding school.

Aibu to just want to move away with dd. Start again and have some fun?

Guess the book and keep going.

Noted and duly changed to "drowning in the Firth of Forth", then... :)

AIBU to say that my son needs some new friends?

He’s very loyal to his current pals but they’re an odd bunch. His best mate is a sweet-natured chap but really not the brightest - possible dyslexia, I’d say, and definitely overweight for his height. He’s usually followed round devotedly by a smaller lad who has anxiety issues. They seem to live together after the little one was evicted, but it’s not clear whether there’s a social services placement involved. Then there’s a hyperactive one who is the pickiest eater known even to Mumsnet, and one who seems quite badly depressed - I’m not surprised, given his ramshackle accommodation and poor diet, and it was heartrending at his birthday party to see how pleased he was with a couple of cheap gifts.

I'm not a parent, but AIBU to suggest DS goes to boarding school next term to meet some friends nearer his own intellectual level?

Grr, try 'not a pushy parent' in the line above...

Lancelottie Winnie the Pooh from the pov of Christopher Robin's Mum.

We’re looking at schools at the moment for our son.
Private is, of course, the way to go but we don’t really want an Eton or a Rugby, even if we could afford it.

DH is keen to send him to his own old school and, on the surface, it looks ideal.
It’s the headmaster I’m worrying about, though.
He’s one of those... I mean he’s Labour. His wife was even trying to become an MP at one point .
And there was a bit of a scandal, all hushed up about the last headmaster who actually died there after coming across this new head.

DH says I’m being ridiculous. He remembers this man teaching some very dubious things about poor people and even sympathised with the General Strike, would you believe?

AIBU to worry about my son being corrupted?

GlamorousGran - yes!

Lancelottie, I was baffled by that, but glamorous has cracked it. Round of applause!

Token’s siblings are The Endless from Neil Gaiman’s Sandman series.

Just back after a traumatic trip to the dentist. Did anyone get my smug teen with three proposals in a day?

I would have never guessed Winnie the Pooh and I knew chunks of it by heart!!!

My DS is an amazing brave French nobleman, but he has taken up with this flighty Englishwoman who has already discarded two husbands. Apparently they met in the train station while she was running away from husband #2, and she had nothing but the clothes she was wearing. Very romantic, I dare say, and at least he has the good sense not to marry her, although apparently she comes from an aristocratic family herself, but we have never seen any family- or money for that matter. He is spending far too much money on her- it is not as if the English know or care about designer clothes, n'est pas? I am afraid she will distract him from doing his duty and fighting the Germans and getting killed.

I'm really fed up at work. I'm never given anything really challenging to do and I'm taken for granted, even subjected to verbal abuse. Don't even think of trying to give me any advice, though, as I am at a rough estimate thirty billion times more intelligent than you.

No, Token, I didn't. I wondered about The Woman in White but to be honest I can remember very little about that.

Glamorous gran the girl in the train?

Those are the aristo from Love in a cold climate
and Marvin from hitchhikers.

Thomas, not Token.

Oh, well done, Token. Just been reading some Marvin quotes to refresh my memory. My favourite HHGTTG character by a country mile.

Tanith - it's not To Serve Them All My Days, is it? If not, the plot is very similar...

There are at least two of mine nobody's got yet. Both classics of 20th C Eng Lit, I thought.

Thomas: right author, wrong book (but right trilogy).

Gasp0de- the one about being fed up at work seems very familiar (though tbh, it more or less describes the situations of many overeducated, underemployed folk I know IRL :) )

I suspected it wasn’t quite right; I’ve got them in a multi-book edition which I now remember is called The Pursuit of Love

Yup!

As a single parent and successful international businesswoman I felt the need to send DS to boarding school - a perfectly good school though their safeguarding is sometimes lax. When DS became very fond of one of his teachers I had the brilliant idea of hiring the handsome young man as a live in tutor for him instead. Gradually we’ve grown close, and I’m planning to marry him. He can even help me run the business: the young women I employ do take a lot of managing. Surely this can only end well?

I'm a lawyer with a slightly dubious reputation. I've fallen in love with a sweet French girl, but she loves someone who is a far, far better man than I am. Now he's in trouble with the authorities in his home country. By a strange coincidence, I'm in a position to help him, but should I be careful not to lose my head over the business because of my love for his wife?

Tanith Goodbye Mr Chips

Gallicoscats Yes it is

Highly recommended for anyone interested in the political situation between the World Wars.